"Vladimir, Slayer of all Evil", circa 2002

Medium: Graphite pencil on white paper.

The portrait of another character created for the game/novel project Mystik: Journey into Darkness, possibly the most overarching and influential character. Vladimir is the penultimate dark hero, cursed with vampirism, ilosated, fanatical yet hopeless, completely and utterly nihilist, yet determined to make good on his mistakes by destroying every last vampire and the godlike sorceror that created them, no matter what it takes. He acts first as the protagonist's mentor, then as his nemesis, and finally as his redeemer.